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...PEOPLE AND LOVE (233 pp.)-Stella Zilliacus-John...
...with Gottwald's doctors in an attempt on the President's life; that he had planted "French agents, British agents, American agents, Yugoslav agents," and told them the secrets of the Czech armed forces and workers' organizations. He implicated, as foreign contacts, former British M.P. Konni Zilliacus, who once fellow-traveled with Stalin and now does with Tito, and Moshe Pijade, a Jewish ideologist in the Tito regime. He said he had given important jobs to "capitalist Jewish emigrants who returned to Czechoslovakia as imperialist agents." According to the indictment, he protected spies pointed...
...fortnight over 60 Labor M.P.s have flouted direct party orders in voting on two major issues. With the recent string of Labor defeats in local contests, and a general election looming up next year, Attlee was at last forced to discipline the rebels. As the most cantankerous of them, Zilliacus had to go first...
Along with Zilliacus, the Labor executive committee expelled 43-year-old Barrister Leslie Judah Solley, member for Thurrock, Essex. Solley had publicly opposed British policy in Greece, voted against participation in the European Recovery Program. Fired from their jobs, though not from the party, were five of the cabinet's parliamentary private secretaries* who had voted against the government's bill to establish Britain's relationship with Ireland. Said one of the purged, ruefully: "If you vote against the government on a 'three line whip' [direct orders from party whips to vote] you are sticking...
...Konni Zilliacus did not take so philosophic a view. Last week he announced that he planned to run again for his House of Commons seat as an Independent Laborite. Said he darkly: "The fight for the soul of the Labor Party, which is also the fight for peace, has now begun...